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The Most Effective SEO Tactics

Marketing and sales professionals say creating quality content is the most effective search engine optimization (SEO) tactic, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by Ascend2.

More than half (57%) of the global professionals polled say quality content creation is one of the most effective SEO strategies employed by their company.

Other SEO efforts seen as effective include keyword research and management (47% say it is one of the most effective tactics), frequent website updating (37%), social media integration (32%), and frequent blogging (28%).

Link-building, a tactic greatly affected by a series of algorithm changes by Google over the past few years, was cited by only 25% of respondents as a top strategy.

Mobile and local search optimization, two relatively new tactics, are cited as among the most effective by 17% and 9% of respondents, respectively.

Below, additional key findings from the report, which was based on data from a survey of 442 marketing and sales professionals from around the world.

Most Difficult SEO Tactics

Quality content creation is perceived as being both highly effective and very difficult to do well; 47% of respondents say it is one of the most difficult SEO tactics to execute.

44% view link building as being highly difficult to execute.

Other challenging tactics include frequent blogging (32% of respondents say it is among the most difficult), keyword research (29%), and frequent website updating (29%).

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Ayaz Nanji is an independent digital strategist and a co-founder of ICW Content, a marketing agency specializing in content creation for brands and businesses. He is also a research writer for MarketingProfs. He has worked for Google/YouTube, the Travel Channel, AOL, and the New York Times.

Since link building is one of the major criteria Google uses to measure a brand's authority. Brands do their best to acquire links by writing quality content which they hope will be shared by their fans in the social networks

Nice Job! Thanks for sharing it. Off- page and On-page SEO stands for different purpose and are important part of site's ranking wagon. Creating valuable and high quality does plays an important part in ranking as they are the essence of any website. But the amount of linking and SEO strategies are different for various types of sites. You need to evaluate the proper approach and yes, if you know the right way of doing SEO, no one can stop you.

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